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Ruby

Abdullah Mohamed
Abdullah Mohamed
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Ruby vs Ruby on Rails

what is the difference between ruby and ruby on rails and what is the uses for each one and what to learn first ?

3 Answers

John Steer-Fowler
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John Steer-Fowler
Courses Plus Student 11,734 Points

See my more lengthy answer here on your other post about this topic

Ruby is a programming language. Ruby on Rails is a web development framework. Basically when you're building a Ruby on Rails app, you'll be writing most of your code in ruby.